yum, rpm commands fail with "/lib64/libelf.so.1: file too short"
Issue
- Commands such as yum and rpm fail with the below errors:
[root@host /]# yum clean all
There was a problem importing one of the Python modules
required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:
/lib64/libelf.so.1: file too short
Please install a package which provides this module, or
verify that the module is installed correctly.
It's possible that the above module doesn't match the
current version of Python, which is:
2.7.5 (default, Apr 9 2015, 11:03:32)
[GCC 4.8.3 20140911 (Red Hat 4.8.3-9)]
If you cannot solve this problem yourself, please go to
the yum faq at:
http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/Faq
[root@host /]# rpm -qf /lib64/libelf.so.1
rpm: error while loading shared libraries: libelf.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x
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